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A few more tips for using the clone source tools on Photoshop.
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Topic: Clone Source Window
A few more tips for using the clone source tools on Photoshop.
When to use
The clone source window is a useful tool for adding more finesse to you your clone source tool. Particularly when it comes to cloning curved objects, and tiled horizons.
Instructions
Cloning curved edges
- Using clone tool go to Menu/Window/Clone Source.
- Click on the rotation box in the Clone Source Window.
- Then with the shift key held down use up and down arrow keys to adjust the clone angle to suit.
Cloning objects that scale in distance
- Using clone tool go to Menu/Window/Clone Source.
- Reduce the scale box in the Clone Source Window.
- Rotate with above method if needed.
- 00:04 This video covers the clone source window,
- 00:06 which many users really don't know much about.
- 00:08 Anyway, here's a photo which I took while I was on vacation, and assuming I
- 00:11 was trying to touch up the car there are a few things I'd like to fix about it.
- 00:15 In specific, there's a break in the metal right here.
- 00:19 My first reaction would be to grab the clone tool,
- 00:21 sample an area near the break, and paint over top of it.
- 00:25 Here's the problem, if I hold down alt or option and
- 00:27 click on a similar area to sample it, then move my mouse over top of the break,
- 00:31 you'll notice that because the area is curved.
- 00:34 It's not gonna work out so well.
- 00:36 Here's a trick that many people don't know about in Photoshop.
- 00:39 If we head up to the window menu at the top, then choose clone source,
- 00:43 there are a few things we can modify to help us with our edit.
- 00:47 This value right here is our rotation.
- 00:49 If I click inside this this box and move my mouse to the location I want to clone,
- 00:54 I can hold down my shift key on my keyboard and then use my up or
- 00:57 down arrow keys to see what the rotation will look like.
- 01:00 You can hopefully see that we have a much better clone now that we
- 01:03 added some rotation.
- 01:05 Right above the rotation value, there's also scaling available to you.
- 01:08 This could be really handy if you are cloning objects that get smaller in
- 01:11 the distance, like bricks for example.
- 01:14 If I sample an area at the front of this image,
- 01:16 then move my mouse towards the back, those bricks are way too big.
- 01:20 Going back to my clone source window, I can reduce the size of the output and
- 01:24 again rotate if needed.
- 01:26 I'm sure a lot of you will kick yourselves for
- 01:28 not knowing about this tool sooner but now you can put it to good use.
- 01:31 I really hope it helped.
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